Suggestions for additions to pre-release steps

Delete the news NNNN.bugfix etc files after building [source:trunk/NEWS]

Check the milestone for the upcoming release, get rid of any non-critical bugs

Check for any open tickets marked regressions, get them fixed

A thought for future releases: since we'd really like folks to download the prereleases and try them out, perhaps we should put the [source:trunk/NEWS NEWS] file on the web somewhere official, too, so they can see all the cool stuff they can try out?

"Other fixes" and maybe all tickets should be links when they are on the web

Document how and when to tag releases in SVN.

Read through the NEWS files and write a summary of the interesting changes for the release

Read the INSTALL file, check the required Python version. If it mentions supported platforms, check that the list matches the current set of buildbots.